The US Government is busy handing out money to companies with their hands out, but is anyone taking a hard look at who the major owners of these companies are, where and why the companies lost money and who the money will actually benefit? When you take a close look, you might be surprised to find that a bail out might be benefiting a Saudi Prince and the money used to support Kuwait real estate development!

President Elect Obama is facing a real mess, but he isn't the first President to do so, and surely, he won't be the last. Here's a short brush-up on American history - amazing how much sounds familiar and relevant today! Too bad Bush didn't read...

Comments on the election, Palin, African-Americans, bail-outs and how to help the middle class.

Desperation is palpable in the United States. There are many indications, as well as the knowledge that Americans don't have any idea how to cope with it, they have never learned the lessons of their grandparents - you do anything to survive. Let's see if they can cope.

The ticker flickers, lives are held in the balance. How could the Dow foster tolerance in a chosen few while spitting in the eye of most us.